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Businesses with more than 250 employees will be highlighted in league tables if they fail to comply with new measures to tackle the gender pay gap by 2018, the Government has announced.

Eleanor Wade, a senior patent examiner who successfully challenged her employer over unequal pay, told 5 live Drive that 鈥減ay differences were systematically disadvantaging women鈥�.

She believes that without the information she got from her Union about pay differences in the company, she 鈥渨ouldn鈥檛 have been in the position to do something about it鈥�.

Latest figures show that women in the UK still earn 20% less than men on average.

This clip is originally from 5 live Drive on 12 February 2016.